# Date: October 15, 1914

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sketched by Lenin immediately before the report began. On the 
reverse of these pages there is a record of the discussion following the report, 
which is published following the plan.
Regarding the aforementioned report, the Geneva section of the RSDLP 
issued announcements-posters with the following content: "On Thursday 
October 15, 1914, at 8½ in the evening, at the premises of the 'Maison du 
Peuple' (No. 4, Dubois-Melly, 4) Comrade N. Lenin will deliver a public 
report on the theme 'The European War and Socialism.' Admission fee: 50 
centimes."
The report was chaired by V. Karpinsky.
* PLAN OF THE REPORT.
[October 15, 1914. Geneva.]
I. 
C[haracter of the] w[ar].
Sp[anish-A]merican
It[alo]-Turk[ish]
Russ[ian]-Jap[anese] 48
Imperialism
(distinction
from previous national
w[ars])
slogan "fatherland"
II. "W[orkers] have no f[atherland]."
Interpretation.
Sophisms.
Basel M[anifesto].
III. Conduct of socialists
(a) Before the w[ar]
(b) Serbia and Russia
(Waverings in Russia)
(c) French
English
German.
IV. 2 types of chauvinism.
V. Collapse of the I[nternational].
VI. Opportunism
"Peace" — civil w[ar]?
[Legal organization?]
Tr[ansformation of national] w[ar] into civil w[ar]
Volkskrieg *
* — People's war. Editor's note.